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jrwakefield on March 26, 2008 - 1:25pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

One can just as easily have the same message if you replaced the "run my car" with "make my beer". How much foodstuffs get made into ingestible alcohol just so people can get stoned every weekend? Likely more than is made into biofuels.

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VIN Biodiesel on March 26, 2008 - 1:48pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Yes, thank you. Or Pepsi or cattle feed etc. It will be a long time before we use as much corn for fuel as we do for these other non food sources. Nobody seemed to mind when Wild Oats started making their "plastic" containers from corn.

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paal myrtvedt on March 26, 2008 - 1:59pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Actually beer is among the most nutrient/ (calories) liquid there is … have a beer-party and skip all meals the next day (a triple super whopper in other words... :-))

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dipchip on March 26, 2008 - 1:59pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

If every person (300 e6) drank 6 beers per day 365d/year that would equal 1/2 the current US ethanol production.

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super390 on March 26, 2008 - 2:30pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Great, how do we get the average American to cut down to only one six-pack a day?

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